Dora Tamana
South African anti-apartheid activist
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Stella Obasanjo
As the wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Stella Obasanjo was the First Lady of Nigeria from 1999 until her death in 2005.
Dr Christine Grant
2022 President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Janez Lawson
She became the first African-American hired into a technical position at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as a ‘computer’. JPL sent her on a programming training course at IBM and she learnt speed coding and was promoted to ‘mathematician’.
Dr Stella Nyanzi
Ugandan medical anthropologist who has written about sexuality, HIV/AIDS and women’s health. She is also a political activist who campaigns for women and girls rights, as well as the rights of LGBTQIA+ people.
Stella Sigcau
South African politician
Stella Madge Damos
South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist
Sophia Theresa Williams-de Bruyn
South African anti-apartheid activist
Faith Gasa
South African political activist
Sarah Baartman
Khoikhoi woman who was kidnapped, sold into slavery and exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus